I want to be careful not to throw all this away. This is happiness. I think this is what happiness is. I haven't got it yet, but I can sense it out there. I feel I'm close to it. Some days, I'm so close I can almost smell it.
That sense of happiness just out beyond my reach - I'm not sure I'd grasped that exactly, but I'd got something close to it, contentment maybe, or at least a functioning routine with regular rewards.
And in that history you're trying to connect to something that once was yours - to something purer, better, something that you lost or something, maybe, that you never knew but that you feel you knew.
Heisenberg and Bohr and Einstein strike me as being like gifted retriever dogs. Off they go, not just for an afternoon, but for ten years; they come back exhausted and triumphant and drop at your feet... a vole. It's a remarkable thing in its way, a ...
Have you ever been lonely? No, neither have I. Solitary, yes. Alone, certainly. But lonely means minding about being on your own. I've never minded about it.
We're deaf men working as musicians; we play the music but we can't hear it.
A bit of the vagueness of music stops you going completely mad, I imagine.
One thing about London is that when you step out into the night, it swallows you.
The thing about opium is that it makes pain or difficulty unimaginable.
The physical shock took away the pain of being.
The past was suddenly rushing in on me in a way I found hard to fight.
It was entirely silent and I tried to breathe its peace.
My own diagnosis of my problem is a simpler one. It’s that I share 50 per cent of my genome with a banana and 98 per cent with a chimpanzee. Banana’s don’t do psychological consistency. And the tiny part of us that’s different - the special H...
All reality about me now appeared to be in tatters, taken down and reduced to the civil war of its particles. I held on very, very tight indeed.
I never for a moment considered killing myself, because it wouldn't have achieved anything.
The end-of-summer winds make people restless.
You put your time where your priority is.
Until we can navigate in time, I'm not sure that we can prove that what happened is real.
